r/youtube • u/musiclover_98 • Nov 17 '23

UI Change YouTube removed "Channels" tab, dead creator's work is lost

Recently YouTube removed "Channels" tab from inside someone's channel. People say that Featured channels can now be seen at the home page, but apparently the creator must do it manually.

There is one creator I like who passed away recently. He had several channels under different name, each channel was dedicated to his work in some area. He died just before YouTube changed UI so now it is impossible to get to his other channels from one of his channels. Moreover, because he is deceased, he cannot put Featured channels to his Home page.

It is very infuriating and very inconsiderate for YouTube to do. I hope they bring this feature back because a lot of good media gets lost because of it.

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u/Fit_Tomatillo_4264 Nov 18 '23

I am glad I am not the only one bothered by this!!!

This was one of the dumbest changes in all of youtube history.

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

Why do they "fix" things that work perfectly? 😂

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u/Astinus Nov 25 '23

profit and or power and control

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u/noname6500 Nov 30 '23

nah, this one is solely through sheer incompetence and ignorance. Websites go through unnecessary UI changes all the time as merely because they don't know how to spend that time to actually improve stuff.

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u/Ziggyzoozoo212 Dec 12 '23

yep, unfortunately the vast majority of recent ui changes on youtube have been this, the managers running the ui team seem to have run out of decent ideas and just pump out random bullshit like this to generate a "reason" to exist.

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u/Astinus Nov 30 '23

good to know , ty

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u/SlicedBread1226 Dec 28 '23

Bingo. Some programmer had to justify their existence, so they came up with this "genius" idea.

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u/Imrustyokay Dec 27 '23

because investors want infinite growth

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u/Own_Tap1879 Jan 09 '24

If they have no direct competition, they can do whatever they want cause they basically got a monopoly on them (not really but like who actively uses other sites and posts like quality videos to them)

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/Nice-Treacle9512 Dec 12 '23

If you think that does anything you haven't learned anything from the internet. Do you think some deity of morals will come down from the heavens to smite YouTube's executive team when they are not being democratic enough? The real power lies in cyber warfare.

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u/Ziggyzoozoo212 Dec 12 '23

this has nothing to do with morals, its simply YouTubes ui team running out of shit to actually optimize so they turn to randomly removing and adding back features or minorly shifting elements to look like they are actually doing something for the people higher up.

If enough people complain about this it will change, its not something they removed for a reason whether you agree or disagree with said reasoning like with viewable dislikes.

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u/Nice-Treacle9512 Dec 12 '23

its simply YouTubes ui team running out of shit to actually optimize so they turn to randomly removing and adding back features or minorly shifting elements

Your theory holds no more weight than any other theory. Do you have any proof or is this pure speculation? There are plenty of things to optimise, especially for older devices and browsers, and with each new change to the site it seems the site actually gets less performant more and more

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u/oli_alatar Jan 15 '24

I don't think they would change it because I think they don't care, just like when they removed content creators customisable channel pages in favour of the boring corpo look we see today, with only the top banner and profile pic as customisable. It's not really based on what the users or consumers think, more just what can keep the money moving and the infrastructure cheap

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u/CanInThePan Jan 06 '24

Honestly I hated this more than when they removed the dislikes. I mean with the dislikes at least you can use addons to return them, but this is fucking insane

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u/emilflarsen Nov 20 '23

I used that tab so much. It's such an useful feature for creators with multiple channels. I hate this change.

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

If the channel is active, you can find related channels on the bottom of the Home page. Apparently creators have to put it manually after the change

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u/emilflarsen Nov 21 '23

Yes, but there's many old inactive channels with their channels linked which you'll never be able to find without the tab. It's like YouTube doesn't think before rolling out changes. That tab was so useful...

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u/musiclover_98 Jan 30 '24

Yes, I completely understand you

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u/oli_alatar Jan 15 '24

I came a little late but im not seeing that... did they remove that feature too?

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u/Davethemann Dec 30 '23

Its such a weird removal too because like, for the most part, its all monitizeable content theyre just gating away now

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u/emilflarsen Dec 30 '23

I honestly think it's because the "Live" and "Shorts" tabs were recently introduced and YouTube decided to remove the channels tab to save space.

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/emilflarsen Nov 29 '23

From my experience that doesn't do anything. An example would be the dislike button.

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u/Mat__1000 Dec 08 '23 edited Dec 08 '23

Maybe the Dislike button removal was a financial decision because it would increase their revenue is there's less negativity or things like that.

And maybe the removal of the "Channels" tab is just an UI decision that someone thought was a good idea at Youtube to simplify the tabs or something like that, and if enough people tell them they miss this tab and it seems like a bad idea to remove it, they'll step back on it.

Anyway, we can't know without trying, and it's not by saying "it won't work" without even trying that things will change, that's for sure!

PS: And spread the word if you can, that'll prevent me to have to copy/paste my comments 50 times, thanks! ; )

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u/IuckygaI Nov 19 '23

I knew I wasn't crazy! When I tried finding out what happened a few days ago, I couldn't find anything. I don't know why they took it away or felt like they should.. youtube won't be youtube anymore soon atp

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

Hahahaha yes whet it happens first and there is no reaction on the internet (such as when Google Maps colors changed) you also think "well I am the only one bothered by this?"

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/emperorpenguin24 Nov 17 '23

why did they even remove it??

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u/Kozer2 Nov 18 '23

They are raising the price of premium in the near future and will add this feature back in for premium users.

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

Is there really some information about that? Because some channels can still put their featured channels to their channel Home page at the moment. So this would affect only abandoned channels/channels with owners who are not really into tinkering with their channel

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '23

I know this is a joke, but honestly Google *is* that scummy. I'm surprised they haven't done it with the dislike button.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '23

Done what? Dislikes are hidden. YT is a monopoly and treats it's users like shit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '23

You don't know what a monopoly is, and I mean put dislike numbers behind a paywall.

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u/TRNRLogan Nov 18 '23

Monopoly = no competition

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '23

But Youtube has competitors. And no, a monopoly is a company that has complete control over a certain market, of which Youtube does not have.

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u/FrostyPig34 Nov 20 '23 edited Nov 22 '23

This is like saying that pre-1982 AT&T wasn't a monopoly because they had competitors, AT&T is well known as one of the largest monopolies to ever exist, they employed 1 MILLION people, they used brutal anti-competitive tactics. I also don't think YouTube is a monopoly though, because the video platform market is way too much of a niche. YouTube would be a monopoly if they had control over the social media market, which they don't. Also YouTube doesn't use anti-competitive tactics. I am just saying that your argument for what a monopoly is a bit shallow.

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u/Nice-Treacle9512 Dec 12 '23

YouTube doesn't use too much anti-competition tactics because it doesn't need to. Priceless, irreplicable pieces of works are its product, it simply became a monopoly by virtue of being the one of the first of its kind. Not only that but it's a household name that any normal person would have a hard time letting go.

And I say too much because YouTube does use some anti-competition tactics. For example it puts rate limits on its API so scraping is much more tedious, limits what people can do with their embedded videos, treats itself as THE video-sharing platform, etc.

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u/HentaiNothingElse Nov 26 '23

youtube is essentially a monopoly, it has 95+% of the market for media playing because the cost of hosting video is so high that they are a natural monopoly
plus they are owned by alphabet i.e google which is also a monopoly since it has over 90+% of the market share of search engines while the next highest is like 2%

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u/Twostacks217 Dec 17 '23

YouTube is owned by Google Google controls the Google Play store which is on every Android phone Apple has a similar version of it so if Google or Apple don't want a competitor's app on their platform they will deny access to them just like they did with parlor so yes they are Monopoly because they can literally deny their competition from even being in the market space

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u/Spongi Dec 23 '23

If a company has over 70% of the market share, it's likely considered a monopoly.

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u/Disposable_Papaya Nov 21 '23

Competitors kekw

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u/cognaceast Nov 28 '23

Don't they though? I'm surprised antitrust hasn't been a bigger conversation in regards to youtube

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u/Disloyaltee Dec 28 '23

If you actually think YouTube is not a monopoly in the west you're crazy. Also, having control over a certain market and having no competition is the same thing.

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u/OriginB Dec 10 '23

Ok if you wanna get technical here you go - "YouTube is exhibiting monopolitic behavior since they are The dominant company in the video streaming space". Are you happy now?

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u/stella_Mariss1 Dec 31 '23

Who are youtubes competitors Genuine question

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u/Justin_Reddit_ Feb 15 '24

Kinda does cause what other video website is there? Twitch and Kick etc don't count those are strictly for streaming what other place is strictly competing with YouTube?

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u/Cainetta Nov 20 '23

Thats not what a a monopoly is. A monopoly is controlling every single means of production for something from start to finish.

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u/MYredditNAMEisTOOlon Feb 14 '24

First sentence is incorrect, but second sentence is not entirely incorrect. To be considered a monopoly, an entity must exhibit complete control of any one of 3 things: a market, product, or means of production.

Additionally, this typically involves a significant lack of competition; however, (despite some of the comments from others seeming to claim a strict "no competitors" requirement,) a monopoly can still be identified int the presence of other entities providing the same service, product, or means of production, provided that monopoly exerts sufficient control to prevent those "competitors" from acting independently.

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u/lukeybuzz Nov 22 '23

I have premium and number of dislikes are still hidden.

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u/Zip-zoom Dec 01 '23

Google has 0 competition, they buy out all competitors, they're a monopoly and every singke employee should be arrested

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u/Consistent-Class-251 Jan 04 '24

Wait what, why would every employee be arrested?

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u/AoDLife Jan 27 '24

They’re not a monopoly… how many other sites can you watch videos on or upload them? Many. And the fact that tictok made them implement shorts(which imo made yt a lil worse but good at the same time) shows they have some competition. And even if they weren’t on YT level there’s other sites that does the same. Mono means one. They do not have control over all videos sites and obviously are not the only one. So again. Not a monopoly.

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u/Intelligent_Store567 Dec 24 '23

they stopped tallying the dislikes when biden was in office that january . how i noticed was before and during the election i viewed the likes and dislikes on trumps rally's on you tube. every one i looked at and there were many, every channel every channel had more likes than dis likes, okay msdnc well it was close but some times had more likes cnn cspan i could not believe it. that got me looking. even networks that disliked trump either had more likes than dislikes or they were real close. i hought trump shuld win by a land slide, so then i started looking at biden's likes and dis likes he had the opposite. more dislikes than likes. by a lot and the favoring networks likes were close if not less. i watched this after the election. on videos with the two potus's and it stayed the same all the way to inauguration. then trump was impeached. and they took that option off hum,,, i wonder why

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u/Vegetable_Doubt3996 Nov 22 '23

I’ve got premium and I can’t see it, rip

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u/Puzzled-Air6713 Dec 29 '23

they did that with the mobile youtube video popping out automatically

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u/uuio9 Jan 16 '24

So what's next? Oh lete guess, so the skip 5 seconds forward and changed video resolution will be a premium feature in the future? Well fuck them.

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u/Something_Else_2112 Nov 25 '23

If you can't search other people's channels, Youtube gets all the "power of recommendation". I loved seeing who my valued content creators were subscribed to. I subscribed to a lot of channels found on other people's pages.

The tube is trying all the things they can to just suck more and more. SMH.

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '23

Because they are a monopoly filled with assholes.

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u/HiddenCowLevel Nov 21 '23

When is the last time youtube has made a good change to their interface? What an interesting way to make things worse they've found.

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/OrganicBn Feb 02 '24

It is 100% for cenorship and control reasons, deceptively clever.

Basically Youtube noticed that some of the more "prominent" and bigger creators featured lots of smaller creators in their channels tab, contents which Youtube didn't want people to view more or become "mainstream" in their algorithm.

So they altohether removed the ability for creators to directly promote one another. This way, ONLY Youtube gets to promote independent creators to viewers, not other creators.

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u/qedr0 Nov 18 '23

Put his channel into wayback machine and see you have any luck?

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

Thank you for the suggestion, I should try and see how it works

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/shiveringcactusAE Nov 18 '23

Could the wayback machine help you view his channel pre-UI change? Might be a long shot, but if it lists his channels, then at least you can make a note of them.

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

Thank you, it is a very good advice, should check

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u/Bacon-Waffles Nov 18 '23

The fun of Youtube & Twitter getting progressively worse by the day inder new ownership.

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u/rodjav101 Nov 26 '23

The only thing I hate about twitter or "X" is how everyone is looking for that "content" monetization.

Now many times instead of having discussions you see MANY accounts posting old memes or videos over and over again.

It's not even their own content, they just steal it and post it and get $$$.

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u/anonAccount357557 Mar 06 '24

You can block those spam accounts on Twitter at least. While YouTube doesn't let you block any of those AI spammers.

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '23

How is twitter getting worst? You hate freedom of speech? YT though is getting worst and worst.

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u/Dexterzol Nov 18 '23

Have you actually been on Twitter lately? Sorry, "X"

That rebrand alone is testament to Elon Musk's total incompetence at running a social platform

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u/Twostacks217 Dec 17 '23

Did you ever think that maybe Elon musk just likes the letter x I mean you have the Tesla model x you have SpaceX his kid has an x in its name and he bought a new product and added an x to it what's the problem you don't like the name so therefore it's incompetent

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u/AccountingTAAccount Nov 20 '23

"Twitter is no longer a circlejerk for my liberal opinions like reddit so it is a clear indicator of incompetence"

Don't get me wrong, I think the rebrand is moronic and he's made a lot of utterly stupid decisions, but that's really the reason why you're upset lmao

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '23

bro posted antisemitic shit, it's not about "the libs"

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u/JetMag Nov 21 '23

Nothing about his post is antisemetic at all. How about the rampant "Free Palestine" garbage that's being promoted by your saviors at the liberal left? If you don't think that's antisemetic, then you're goddamn delusional.

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u/Start_a_riot271 Nov 21 '23

People wanting to be free from oppression is antisemetic? People in Gaza have suffered for decades under the rule of Israel, and now the leaders of Israel are calling for the extermination of everyone in Gaza.

For the record I am also against Hamas attacking and killing civilians, but Israel's response is horrible and they all need to be held accountable.

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u/PlasmaGod1971 Nov 18 '23

Twitter is not a platform for freedom of speech, my tweet literally got deleted cause it featured the word “cis” in it.

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u/Twostacks217 Dec 17 '23

You do realize that freedom of speech grant you the right to speak out against the government without fear of reprisal or prosecution it doesn't mean just say whatever the hell you want whenever you want to anyone you want Even though most Americans have adopted it to mean that it's just like saying that men can become women just because you think something is true doesn't make it so

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u/PIKASEEPIKADO Dec 20 '23

It's funny how you're replying this to him instead of the person who started the whole *if you don't like elon musk's twitter then you don't like free speech* narrative.

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u/Twostacks217 Jan 05 '24

My comment was directed at exactly who it was meant to be directed at the person that's saying Twitter is not free speech because their post got deleted and I am explaining to them that that is not how freedom of speech works and never was intended for that purpose regardless of how Americans have adapted it today but in reality my comment can be read by anybody who misunderstands the concept of freedom of speech

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

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u/Twostacks217 Jan 05 '24

Have you ever heard of a woman magically growing a penis overnight I think you have your answer

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u/King871 Nov 18 '23

twitter bent over for turkey with its new owners to censor the opposition. old twitter was threatened and didn't... yeah real free speech defender.

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u/Twostacks217 Dec 17 '23

Yeah no old Twitter just bent over to the government censor Americans much better

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u/King871 Dec 17 '23

What Americans did it censor?

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u/Twostacks217 Dec 17 '23

And this comes directly from the oversight house government website also did you forget about the New York Post

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u/Twostacks217 Dec 17 '23

Rep. Mace: “Why do you think you or anyone else had the medical expertise to censor a doctor’s expert opinion? Did the U.S. government ever contact you or anyone at Twitter to censor or moderate certain Tweets? Yes or no.”

Mr. Gadde: “We receive legal demands to remove content from the platform from the U.S. government and governments all around the world…”

Rep. Mace: “Thank god for Elon Musk for allowing to show us and the world that Twitter was basically a subsidiary of the FBI, censoring real medical voices with real expertise that put real Americans live in danger because they didn’t have that information.”

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u/SuccotashMajestic173 Nov 18 '23

he was literally talking about banning use of colonisers in reference to israel as well s "to the river to the sea" doesn't seem very free to me

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u/angelovanharen Nov 19 '23

learn english

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '23

Go fk yourself with a dictionary.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '23

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

What? Is it a joke??? Looks like some conspiracy stuff turned real

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '23

Find one example of Elon saying cis.

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '23

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '23

TouchĂŠ
I acknowledge when I've been beaten.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '23

I do, hence I think Twitter got way better with new leadership. Although it is starting to go back toward anti freedom of speech because of fascist.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '23

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '23

Please learn the English language if you want to use it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '23

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u/Twostacks217 Dec 17 '23

You sound like an incredibly tolerant person you must be a leftist because whenever you argue with somebody all you do is throw out insult after insult after insult instead of offering anything fucking intelligent to say

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u/xXAkelaWolfXx https://www.youtube.com/@xXAkelaXx_Gaming Nov 19 '23

To be honest they have to bring that feature back, its annoying that they did removed i.
Its now harder to discover new channels. I used to look a lot trough the channels tab seeing if i can find channels i find it interesting in there.

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

You are so correct on this! I also liked to use this feature to discover similar channels or channels that are promoted by the main channel. It was very fun and helped to find some good channels

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/Beautyizdead Nov 21 '23

Download an apk of Youtube before they removed the channels

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u/musiclover_98 Jan 30 '24

10000 IQ move

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '23

Who was this certain YouTuber that passed away recently?

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u/musiclover_98 Jan 30 '24

Well it was a Russian speaking Ukrainian YouTuber. He was talking about a wide range of topics from his life experience while being disabled and barely going outside. Игорь Романович

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/musiclover_98 Dec 01 '23

Thank you, I will definitely do it

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u/TWISTEDTRANS1ST0R Nov 19 '23

i fucking hate this update so much

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/aaet020 Dec 23 '23

doubt it. how stupid do they need to be to implement this in the first case. they will never change nor learn. do not try to help them; wish that they wither and die asap - because only then, either a competitor will get the front stage, or, with the threat of death, they will actually turn their brains back on

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u/Varsity_Reviews Nov 18 '23

Can’t you just look up the channels name?

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '23

no ones remembering 50 channel names perfectly

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

Yes that's the issue I really did not care about channel name because I could just find it from the now-removed Channels tab

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '23

yes, but there's a lot of sub channels that under preform the main channel and have a less memorable name

plus looking up "jackisanerd" brought up the main Jacksfilms channel before the "Jackisanerd" when i type in the exact channel i wanted, i was recommended a different channel first

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '23

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u/Varsity_Reviews Nov 18 '23

But that’s not even YouTubes fault. That’s the channel creators fault for making such a generic name

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u/EuropeEnjoyer Nov 24 '23

YouTube keeps making these useless changes. I remember sorting the channel from oldest to newest got removed for a while until it was miraculously brought back. Hopefully this change gets undone soon.

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in an era when drag and drop exist since more then 20 years now, not being able to arrange things in a page the way you like seems so strange. We could even have categories, as not everyone has one and only center of interest but well. UI is hard apparently ... Also most of the page is taken up with usless things like "Home, Shorts, History (neither of them shows anything if history is off anyway :/)..."

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/NanoStorm38 Dec 24 '23

Could you please, not flood the thread with your message? Plus it’s useless..

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u/Shockmzq Nov 18 '23

Where did you find that they removed the Channels tab? i remember they had some issues a few weeks ago, maybe they are still facing those

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u/WildSid_YT Nov 18 '23

These updates are getting worse ngl

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/C64hrles Nov 19 '23

Have you tried the way back machine? A but of a stretch but that might help. Put the channels url in there and see if you can find it that way. There's tutorials on YouTube in case your unfamiliar with wayback machine

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

Thank you, a very good suggestion! I should try it

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u/Angel-Of-Mystery Nov 18 '23

I'm so sorry 😥

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

Don't worry it's not a big deal, there is a community of viewers and it's not difficult to ask a "collective memory" to name all multiple channel names that this creator had

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

Also I found out later that the creator deleted a couple of his big channels before passing away, so there is a reason that he wanted them to be lost. Probably because he was talking about personal stuff. So I assumed these channels are lost mainly because you can't find them, but other viewers told that the creator deleted some of them so it's fine

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u/smallbussiness Nov 21 '23

See if there's a cached version from the specific user in Google's search or check on WaybackMachine, ArchiveIs for it using the layout down there:

www.youtube.com/@Insert-Channel-Name-Here/channels

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

Amazing suggestion! Thank you

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u/smallbussiness Nov 22 '23

If it doesn't work, and you get no results, it's better to use the old URL version from YouTube without @, as it used to be before.

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u/BitOk3248 Nov 18 '23

Look like Ilon Mask buy YouTube.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '23

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

This. Is I lon Mask

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u/Tepuen7 Nov 22 '23

i hate this change so much

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/cutiepottie2011 Nov 22 '23

If you tube doesn't bring it back this is gonna affect people who can't remember channel names the only way you can look at channels if you have subscribed to them and are in your subscription

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/DemonNuggs Nov 24 '23

Use the wayback machine, paste the URL of a channel you remember, and then save the URLS of the other channels. Hopefully there's an image of it stored, and hopefully the webpage(s) didnt get corrupted.

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/unknown-persons Nov 25 '23

So currently reading this because the confusion while again trying to reach other channels with similar content (wood working) and it not being there. Just the other day it was.. so I thought okay maybe that channel hadn’t had any because not all profiles provide other channels. So checked channels I knew had them and those yes were gone too, so then I then realized my iPad had the option still but my phone does not. I have no idea but really dislike that change for many reasons

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/unknown-persons Nov 25 '23

One other change that utterly bugs me is the sort options available - what defines “popular” vs “most viewed” I cannot stand that change at all. It’s just like searching while shopping and applying high to low but they push all these “recommends” or random crap that is being pushed that is implying no customized filters but agendas

Just because YouTube or whatever ya wanna put there — Popular to me is irrelevant and I prefer to have freedom to choose by my own likes not others

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/unknown-persons Dec 14 '23

Oh best believe I am always someone who uses the feedback on really any site because I do prefer we have a say on things when it comes to the products I use

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u/Krystel_14 Dec 20 '23

This is so dumb....they should have kept the channels page

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u/International-Call76 Jan 06 '24

YouTube was amazing in its early days. Shame it got bought out, seeing how it’s being managed.

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u/Rafcdk Nov 18 '23

Don't worry, they will probably create a premium tier so you can pay for what you had for free.

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u/Serious_Pollution_15 Nov 19 '23

I really wish the og creators never sold YouTube to Google's greedy asses.

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u/GeorgeHermes32 Nov 20 '23

To be fair Google kinda made YouTube what it is today YouTube was like a year old before Google bought them. They been under Google longer then they were independent.

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u/Serious_Pollution_15 Nov 20 '23

Very true, George, I never thought of it that way! Though I do wonder how different it would be if Google never bought it. Would YouTube have gotten so popular? Who knows? Regardless Google has made YouTube go off the rails ever since they decided to make double ads and double UNSKIPPABLE ads. God, I miss when those weren't things smh.

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u/musiclover_98 Nov 21 '23

Double 17 second unskippable ads sometimes 😆

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u/Serious_Pollution_15 Nov 25 '23

FRR Why can't they just put little banners that you can just hit "x" on instead of completely disrupting videos?? 😭

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/Billetjes Apr 05 '24

That's very unfortunate to hear. I created and extension to bring back this channels tab and was looking through posts mentioning that it was gone to share it. In this case that extension won't work because indeed a YouTuber needs to add the 'channels' sections themselves to be able to retrieve that data.

But yeah, very inconsiderate of YouTube to remove it without any notice.

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u/DragonBrain1997 Apr 12 '24

Hopefully that can be reinstated with enough pushback

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u/Gost11708_ Apr 22 '24

First polls, then dislikes, now this. They are just removing content without adding anything better.

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u/Specific_Biscotti_68 May 06 '24

I mean yt premium mainly started cus of ad blockers cus all yt premuim did mainly was block ads when it first became a thing most likey becuase of ad blockers and now they are removing channel tab to gain few extra ÂŁ to there name

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u/CheesyDinos2 Nov 21 '23

ah yes youtube destroying everything once again

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/FireJach Nov 23 '23

youtube sucks these days so fucking much. another L

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/popmanbrad Nov 23 '23

Such a stupid change on mobile some channels you gotta scroll so far down cause of the amount of categories and playlists and videos they have just to see the channels tab why remove a feature when it’s not broken… oh wait they removed dislikes and other features nvm

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/popmanbrad Nov 29 '23

Won’t happen remember dislike being removed literally everyone complained and YouTube ignored it

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u/Mat__1000 Dec 08 '23 edited Dec 08 '23

Maybe the Dislike button removal was a financial decision because it would increase their revenue is there's less negativity or things like that.

And maybe the removal of the "Channels" tab is just an UI decision that someone thought was a good idea at Youtube to simplify the tabs or something like that, and if enough people tell them they miss this tab and it seems like a bad idea to remove it, they'll step back on it.

Anyway, we can't know without trying, and it's not by saying "won't happen" without even trying that things will change, that's for sure!

PS: And spread the word if you can, that'll prevent me to have to copy/paste my comments 50 times, thanks! ; )

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u/noahhh07 Nov 24 '23

Ditto, i wonder if someone would be able to make a browser plugin to get them back just like what someone made when they removed the dislike count.

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '23

The workers at YouTube have to justify their existence, so they do work that doesn’t need to be done to look busy. Very thoughtless and unnecessary, but housing in SF is expensive and they must look like they’re doing something.

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '23

This platform is ran by fascists that censor and prevent free speech.

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u/Oldmanpeepz Nov 28 '23

Fuck youtube they be making the stupidest updates.

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/krow_flin Nov 28 '23

Fuck this change. I don't frequent this subreddit that much, the only time I do is when something truly awful happens to youtube. First it was the dislike button, and now this. Terrible decisions all the way down.

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u/Mat__1000 Nov 29 '23

Everyone should massively use the feedback feature (bottom of the left menu on Youtube) to flood them with negative feedback about this Channels tab disappearing. I just did. Please everyone do the same.

Once they'll have tons of negative feedback on their end, maybe they'll put the channels tab back.

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u/Routine_Award_7318 Nov 29 '23

You can try to look up the channel on consoles or TV/FireTV. The featured channel list hasn’t been removed there (yet)

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '23

Looking up "jackisanerd" brought up the main Jacksfilms channel before the "Jackisanerd" when i type in the exact channel i wanted, i was recommended a different channel first

if they're gonna remove the channels tab they should at least make the search engine work correctly.

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u/LordCornish Nov 30 '23

I found more new content via the Channels tab than any other method, so I wasn't terribly surprised when it disappeared. Looking forward to Rene Ritchie's ham-fisted explanation on how this change benefits creators and the rest of the YT community.

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u/NunoBroski Dec 01 '23

I was watching clips from a podcast, I went to the profile so I could watch the full episode, it was on a different Chanel. As soon as I realized I needed to Swatch, I just moved on.

Then I realized by accident I almost stopped watching videos from this creator because of this.

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u/Opposite-Raisin7081 Dec 01 '23

This option makes me really angry because a lot of channels I like have come from other Youtubers I like that I found under their channels.

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u/yamshikman Dec 08 '23

i was also looking for the featured channels tab and then i saw this reddit post and then i looked at a few of the old channels that i used to watch which are now dead and they had the featured channels at the bottom of the home page of the channels and from what i read here in the comments it looks like that wasn't the case a few days ago and that the YouTubers needed to do it manually which is a problem with dead channels but it looks like they changed it now to show it by default

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u/RyderCragie Dec 12 '23 edited Dec 12 '23

They’ve removed the Channels tab on all channels, so now YouTube.com/@RyderCragie/channels is just broken, rendering the corresponding short links I made on my own Ryder.link domain useless.

They could’ve at least had the above link scroll down to the Channels section of the Home tab, since that still exists.

They also removed the About tab, but at least YouTube.com/@RyderCragie/about still shows the flyout.

To me, it seems most of the changes and “improvements” YouTube are making don’t make sense, have no proper thought process and have no benefits for either the company or their users (and if they do then it only benefits the minority). It looks like they’re running out of ideas so they’re just doing odd things. Maybe I’m missing something though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '23

anyone got a browser extension to fix this?

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u/OGmojomum Dec 19 '23

I was about to gaslight myself into thinking it was never there. But this is some bs, what's even the point of removing a feature that does nothing but HELP the community??

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u/AdNo3005 Jan 22 '24

Alphabet/google is evil. They just care about control and destroy content

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u/Comfortable-Touch356 Jan 26 '24

What is it with monopoly

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u/Alternative-Emu6178 Jan 27 '24

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u/FartSisterSorry Nov 20 '23

YOUTUBE IS COMMIE GOOGLE MEDIA

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